Bad elective c section experiences...?

**GothChick** · 04-02-2012 08:37

So im going to have another elective c section with this bubs...I have heard all the wonderful positive elective c section stories...now im after the bad...

Has anyone gone in for an elective c section (not emergency) and hated the experience or had an awful time? Did you have any complications?

I went into my first c section not knowing any of the risks..now I want all the information available.

Did you go in with high hopes and a positive outlook and have a miserable time?

**BlissedOut** · 04-02-2012 08:43

I lost sensation to my toes for several months, I had to have two spinals as the first batch was faulty and had a huge bleed, but I still consider it a good experience and my second had no issues.

I was terrified of having a general, but this is more common with emergency csections.

**GothChick** · 05-02-2012 07:47

Wow so just the one?? That's gotta be good right?!

**summastarlet** · 05-02-2012 08:19

I had a c-section last month due to grade 3 placenta praevia. My actual c-section experience was quite positive and the complications I had were actually due to the PP (loss of blood and requiring several transfusions) which I was warned could happen so I was prepared for this.

This complication did impact on my recovery (didn't get out of bed until halfway through day 3 instead of being up and about sooner like most ladies who have c-sections) which has given me a slightly more negative view of my experience. The pain I experienced when I was first up and about was intense (even on pain killers).

I think without the complications of the PP I would say my c section experience was 100% positive but having said that if I didn't have PP I would have tried for a natural birth.

**laurea** · 05-02-2012 08:54

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**danielle13** · 30-03-2012 20:19

Mine wasn't a horror story, but there were certain aspects of my elective that were worse than my emergency one, but I'm far more at peace with my elective.

They took 11 goes to get the spinal in and I was an absolute nervous wreck, freaking out the entire time they were trying to get it in. They numbed the lumbar area with a local first but they kept putting the spinal in the wrong spot which hadn't been numbed and it was extremely painful and felt disgusting to be honest.
Once that was taken care of, I could feel literally EVERYTHING. Every cut, every tug, every hand in my body, I felt. It was the scariest thing in the world.
I hadn't felt so much with my emergency c/s and I was totally unprepared for it and I panicked alot.

Once DS was out I was alot more comfortable as I had a distraction, but while I was in recovery (by myself at this point), the numbness started wearing off and I was in heaps of pain.
I asked for pain relief once I got taken back to my ward, and they gave me panadol. I didn't think anything of it as with my epi the last time the pain relief kept coming for the first 8 hours so I figured it must have been the same with the spinal.
But by the time morning came I was in excruciating pain, I had to get up for my shower and it took literally an hour and a half just to get up out of bed, with help from the midwife.
The anaesthetist came around a few hours later to check on my spinal site, and asked why they'd taken my morphine drip out ... she was absolutely mortified that I hadn't been set up with it at all. My only pain relief since an hour after my c/s was a couple of panadols

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She ended up giving me about triple the normal dose of endone for 2 days along with some other strong painkiller, and once I was over the 3 days of agony my recovery was quick and much easier than the first time around.

But I now have the most beautiful little 11 week old in the world who I'm totally in love with

, so it trully is worth it in the end.

**melissa20588** · 30-03-2012 18:01

I also would like to hear some bad elective c-sect stories as I'm also planning one for September and want to be as informed as possible!

**GothChick** · 30-03-2012 18:10

Originally Posted by melissa20588

I also would like to hear some bad elective c-sect stories as I'm also planning one for September and want to be as informed as possible!

Hey snap, Sep for me too!

**hopefully2** · 30-03-2012 18:20

I had a positive experience but I did get a very nasty infection in my skin...not in my wound that would have been common...no I had to get it in the layers of skin in my abdomen. I discharged myself after ten days and had to be on i v meds and antibiotics for six weeks. I couldn't breastfeed as a result. I did try start up again using motilium but gave up without support.

This experience was terrifying. I did freak out that I was going to die as they thought I might have golden staff. My ob was fantastic, he would come check on me at all times of day and night.

I don't blame anyone these things happen. Just make sure you report any heat on skin or feeling unwell.

I am having a second csection in June, a little terrified but I did love the actual birth and tbh the other part of recovery was a breeze.

I just need to have swabs done for wierd bacteria and be on antibiotics during procedure.